Technical Architect
| Posting date: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £67,000 to £83,300 per year |
| Additional salary information: | (including allowances). Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2024 |
| Location: | Salford |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 354766/7 |
Summary
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.
About the role
We’re a small collaborative, supportive team and as we look to grow and deliver more services, we are looking for two experienced technical architects with a strategic mindset to lead the design of services within one of our portfolios. In this role you will have influence at a high level to guide the design of these services through both Alpha and Omega, and the opportunity to step up to a portfolio level. We code in the open (see our code here: http://github.com/uktrade) and our primary tech stack is Python/Django, Nodejs/React, running on AWS. DBT optimises the architecture for change. We are aware that we don’t know all the future needs of our users and this needs to be reflected in the service architecture.
Main responsibilities
You will be:
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the development team.
- Design services & system integration, selecting technologies to meet user needs.
- Build and maintain technical roadmaps.
- Facilitate integrations and reuse with other development teams.
- Rapidly build prototypes to demonstrate and test architectural patterns.
- Document, communicate and manage the evolution of services and infrastructure through architecture decision records.
- Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of user stories.
- Form relationships with external suppliers.
- Be accountable for the technical strategy of a portfolio.